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WEATHER PROOF WINDOW FRAME. v No. 520.330. Patented May 22, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN NEUMANN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

WEATH ER-PROO F WlNDOW-FRAM E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,330, dated May 22, 1894. Applicationfiled September 21,1893. Serial No. 486,097. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN NEUMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at J ersey City, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have inventeda new and useful Weather-Proof Window-Frame, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a weather proof window frame in which tongues and grooves and overlapping rabbets are provided at all connecting points of the window frame where either rain or wind is liable to drive or beat through.

The objects of my invention are to provide, (first,) a weather proof window frame insuring dryness from rain and tightness from wind; (second,) a weather proof window frame which shall be simple in construction and cheap in manufacture; (third,) aweather proof window frame quickly and readily put together, thereby saving time and labor. I accomplish these objects by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters are used to designate similar parts throughout.

Figure 1, Sheet 1, is a front view of my weather proof window frame partly broken. Fig. 2, Sheet 1, is a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3, Sheet 1, is a horizontal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4:, Sheet 1, is a detail perspective view of the sub-sill and counter-sill, slightly out of normal position. Fig. 5, Sheet 2, is a detail perspective view of the horizontal top-casing, A, from the rear. Fig. 6, Sheet 2, is a detail perspective view of one of the vertical outer casings, B B. Fig. 7, Sheet 2, is an inverted perspective view of the counter-sill, E. Fig. 8, Sheet 2, is a detail vertical section on the line 8-8 of Fig. 1. Fig. 9, Sheet 2, is a detail perspective view of the horizontal toppiece, D. Fig. 10, Sheet 2, is a section on line 10-10 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrow.

My weather proof window frame is provided with outer casings, A B B, vertical blind-stops, O G, and a horizontal blind-stop, O, stiles, D D, a horizontal top-piece, D, a counter-sill, E, and a sub-sill, F. The sub-sill, F, has upon its upper surface raised tongues or stops, f f f f; The counter-sill, E, has

upon its upper surface grooves, e e, and a raised portion, G. Upon its front it has a rectangular projection, e e, and upon its under side a rabbet continued as a groove and again terminating in a rabbet, 6 e The stiles, D D, are adapted to be insertedinto the grooves, e e, of the counter-sill, E, and into the grooves, 01 d, of the horizontal top-piece, D, and are provided on their front edges with rabbets, d cl. The horizontal top-piece, D, is pro vided with grooves d d to receive the stiles, D D, and upon its front edge with a rabbet, 61*. The vertical blind-stops, O C, have upon their fronts rabbets, c c, and upon their rears grooves, c c, and at their upper ends are mitered for adjustment with the horizontal blind-stop, O. The horizontal blind-stop, C, is mitered at both of its ends for adj ustment with the vertical blind-stops, O O, and has upon its upper front a rabbet, c and upon its rear a groove, 0 The vertical outer casings, B B, have at their lower ends grooves, b b, and upon their rear inner edges, extending the entire length of the casings, grooves, b b, and upon their upper ends tongues or rabbets b 11 They may also be slightly mitered on the inner sides of their upper ends to receive the horizontal top-casing, A, where an ornamental-beading'is used. The horizontal top casing, A, has upon its lower rear side arabbet continued as a groove and terminating as a rabbet, a a, and upon its lower.

edge a mitered projection a, where an ornamental beading is used.

The adjustment of the various parts com posing my weather proof window frame is as follows: The counter-sill, E, is placed upon the sub-sill, F, the rectangular projection, e c, thus over-lapping the tongue, ff, of the sub-sill, F, and the rabbet and groove, 6 e coming in place against and over the tongue, f f. The sub-sill, F, and the counter-sill, E, thus afford a firm basis for the erection upon them of the other parts of my weather proof window frame and in their connection with each other insure dryness and tightness. The stiles, D D, are set on end in the grooves, e e, of the counter-sill, E. The horizontal toppiece, D, is placed upon the stiles, D D, the upper ends of the stiles, D D, being set in the grooves,-d d, of the top-piece, D. The vertical blind-stops, O C, are set on end, the

grooves, c 0, coming in place over the raby bets, d d, of the stiles, D D. The mitered, horizontal blind-stop, U, rests upon the mitered ends of the vertical blind stops, 0 O, the groove, c of the horizontal blind-stop, 0', coming in place over the rabbet, d of the horizontal top-piece, D. The vertical outer casings, B B, are placed on end, the grooves, 12 b, of the casings, B B, coming in place over the tongues, f f, of the subsill, F, and the grooves, b b, fitting over the rabbets, c c, of the vertical blind-stops, O O. The horizontal top-casing, A, is then placed in position, the rabbet, a, thereof resting upon the rabbets, b 5 of the vertical outer casings, B B, and the groove, a, the continuation of the rabbet, a, coming in place over the rabbet, c of the horizontal blind-stop, O. The whole is then suitably nailed or screwed together to hold the parts firmly in their positions. The raised portion, G, of the counter-sill, E, acts as a rain or weather stop for the window sash, the sash H coming outside of the portion G. It will thus be seen that by my arrangement of over-lapping rabbets and tongues and grooves that my window frame is proof against wind and rain at all exposed points.

The parts of my weather proof window frame, by reason of the readiness and compactness of their adjustment to each other permit my invention to be set in position in a building without the necessity of cutting and re-fitting together of loosely connected and open jointed parts often required where the ordinary window frame is used, thus in the case of my invention saving time and labor.

While my weather proof window frame is more especially intended for wooden buildings, it is also well adapted for buildings of brick or stone. It is also obvious that my invention is equally available for a weather proof door-frame.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent is 1. The combination of the subsill having upon its upper surface the continuous longitudinal tongue, the counter-sill having upon its upper side the transverse grooves, upon its under side the longitudinal rabbet and groove engaging with the continuous longitudinal tongue of the subsill and having the rectangular projection overlapping the subsill, the stiles engaging at their lower ends with the transverse grooves of the counter sill and having upon their front edges the lon-' gitudinal rabbets, the horizontal top-piece having upon its under side the transverse grooves engaging with the stiles and upon its front edge the longitudinal rabbet, the vertical blind-stops having upon their rears the longitudinal grooves engaging with the longitudinal rabbets of the stiles, and the horizontal blind-stop having upon its rear the longitudinal groove engaging with the longitudinal rabbet of the horizontal top-piece, all substantially as herein described and set forth.

2. The combination of the sub-sill having upon its upper surface the continuous longitudinal tongue and the two shorter longitudinal tongues, said shorter tongues being parallel with the continuous longitudinal tongue and in line with each other, the counter-sill having upon its upper side the transverse grooves, upon its under side the longitudinal rabbet and groove engaging with the continuous longitudinal tongue of the subsill and having the rectangular projection over-lapping the subsill, the stiles engaging at their lower ends with the transverse grooves of the counter-sill and having upon their front edges the longitudinal rabbets, the horizontal toppieces having upon its under side the transverse grooves engaging With the stiles and upon its front edge the longitudinal rabbet, the vertical blind-stops, mitered at their upper ends, having upon their rears the longitudinal grooves engaging with the longitudinal rabbets of the stiles, the horizontal blindstop, mitered at both its ends, having upon its front the longitudinal rabbet and upon its rear the longitudinal groove engaging with the longitudinal rabbet of the horizontal toppiece, the vertical outer-casings having at their lower ends the grooves engaging with the shorter longitudinal tongues of the subsill, upon their rear edges the longitudinal grooves engaging with the longitudinal rabbets of the vertical blind-stops and having upon their upper ends the rabbets, and the horizontal top-casing having upon its lower rear side the longitudinal rabbet and groove engaging with the rabbets of the vertical outer casings and with the longitudinal rabbet of the horizontal blind-stop, all substantially as herein described and set forth.

3. In a weather proof window frame the combination, with the subsill, stiles, the horizontal top-piece, vertical blind-stops, the horizontal blind-stops, vertical outer casings and the horizontal top-casing, of the counter-sill having the transverse grooves upon its upper side engaging with the stiles, the longitudinal rabbet and groove upon its under side engaging with the continuous longitudinal tongue of the subsill and having the rectangular projection over-lapping the subsill, substantially as herein described and as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a weather proof window frame, the combination, with the counter sill, stiles, the horizontal top-piece, vertical blind-stops, the horizontal blind-stop, vertical outer-casings and the horizontal top-casing, of the sub-sill having the continuous longitudinal tongue engaging with the longitudinal rabbet and groove of the counter-sill and having the shorter longitudinal tongues engaging with the grooves of the vertical outer-casings, sub-'- stantially as herein described and as and for the purposes set forth.

5. The combination, with the sub-sill, the counter-sill, stiles, the horizontal top-piece, vertical outer casings and the horizontal topcasing, of the vertical blind-stops, mitered at their upper ends, having upon their rears the longitudinal grooves engaging with the 1ongitudinal rabbets of the stiles and the horizontalblind-stop, mitered at both its ends,having upon its front the longitudinal rabbet engaging with the longitudinal rabbet andgroove of the horizontal top-casing and upon its rear the longitudinal groove engaging with the longitudinal rabbet of the horizontal toppiece, all substantially as herein described and set forth.

6. In a weather proof window frame, the combination, with the stiles, the horizontal top-piece, vertical blind-stops, the horizontal blind=stop, vertical outer casings and the hori- 

